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Title: American Memorials, American Memorials: Tutorial, Fall 2002
Description: In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, many people have proposed memorials to mark the site of the tragedy, especially at the World Trade Center. Why does the American public feel the need to commemorate sacrifice, and why is there a debate over the proper form of public memory? This tutorial will explore these questions and will put the current debate in the context of a long tradition of public memorials in America.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3426

Title: Americans in Paris: Through the Looking Glass, Tutorial, Fall 2002
Description: This semester we will journey to Paris through the eyes of Americans. From the founding fathers of the United States to the most recent winner of the Tour de France, from jazz musicians and painters to the most prominent writers of the century, Americans have influenced and been influenced by their encounters with Paris.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3429

Title: Campus Culture Wars -- Then and Now, Tutorial, Fall 1997
Description: In recent years there has been much debate about what constitutes an appropriate undergraduate education. Discussions of multiculturalism, race and gender equality, political correctness, and much else have helped fuel sometimes stormy debates about what college students ought to learn and how. But these debates are not new, especially in American education. In this tutorial we shall examine both recent controversies and their predecessors in an effort to establish our own criteria for the proper definition of liberal education in late twentieth-century America. These discussions will conclude with each student creating his or her own four-year course of study, together with an essay justifying it on the principles of liberal education.
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:3431

Title: Color Culture and Class, Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class
Description: Race thinking dominates ways in which people in the United States differentiate groups of people from each other. This tutorial focuses on associations between color and culture in order to examine how racial meanings are constructed and made comprehensible as well as how they are routed through representations of class. Using a combination of texts -- academic articles, films, newspapers and advertisements -- we will explore representations of
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3432

Title: Computational Physics, Physics 295, Computational Physics, Computational Physics at Grinnell College
Description: Curricular materials for Physics 295, Computational Physics, offered in Spring, 1998 by Prof. Mark Schneider at Grinnell College
Date Created: 1998
PID: grinnell:224

Title: Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century: Recent Advances in Economic Theory and Undergraduate Economics
Description: Article arguing that undergraduate curricula should incorporate new approaches to economics including game-theory and other advances in economic analysis
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:11656

Title: Darwin's Legacy in the 20th Century and Beyond, Tutorial, Fall 2000
Description: The goals of this course are: 1) to develop your skills in the areas of critical thinking, writing, and oral communication. 2) to integrate you fully into the college environment by providing you with advice regarding your course of study and other necessary assistance. Although the subject matter is expansive and interesting in its own right, we should remember that the readings are not an end to themselves, but are intended to be a springboard to facilitate the development of your skills. We will consider the impact of Darwin's thought in four areas: 1) the relationship between science and religion, 2) the question of design in nature, 3) current scientific understanding of the origin of life on earth (and related questions regarding extra-terrestrial life), and 4) application of Darwin's ideas to questions regarding human nature.
Date Created: 2000
PID: grinnell:3434

Title: Data Repository for Reproducible Research
Description: To promote reproducibility, since 2009 all my empirical research has been cached in a data repository that captures all source code and data dependencies automatically or semi-automatically.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:10001

Title: Degradation and Development in Tropical Forests
Description: This tutorial explores why the world's tropical forests are disappearing focusing on Latin America and the Amazon Basin.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3435

Title: Detectives and Their Fictions, Tutorial : Detectives and Their Fictions
Description: This tutorial focuses on the literary and film representations of detectives and the generic conventions within which those characters operate. First, we will examine the conventions of detective fiction established by E.A. Poe and refined by the English tradition. Then we will examine the American hardboiled conventions in literature and film. Finally, we will concentrate on works that challenge, reshape, or parody such conventions.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3436